News
On 1 March 2012 the Europeana Fashion project was launched.
Europeana has published 2.4 million objects under CC0. The collections used in the Europeana LOD pilot come from 8 direct Europeana providers encompassing over 200 cultural institutions from 15 countries which include the SwNHB collection recently uploaded through CARARE.
The first CARARE dataset was successfully published by Europeana on Monday the 6th February from the Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB). The publication follows two years’ work on data preparation, the creation of a CARARE metadata schema tailored towards archaeological content and establishing the technology for a complete harvesting, aggregation and ingestion service.
At the end of October, the winners of the EuropeanaTech Hackathon held in Vienna, took part in a workshop designed to move their product ideas further along the path to a ‘marketable’ website or app.
The Chief Executive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bruno Racine, has been elected to chair the Board of the Europeana Foundation, responsible for the EU’s primary cultural heritage showcase, Europeana.eu.
Press release: Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation
28 October 2011
Press release: Europeana, The Hague, The Netherlands, 12 October 2011
The second CARARE Plenary meeting is being held at Vilnius Univeristy, Lithuania on the 22nd and 23rd September.
WikiLovesMonuments, a pan-European competition and initiative to upload images of monuments, started on the 1st September and runs until the 30th.
Europeana’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2010 – entitled Networking – is now available online (PDF).